I don't think you'll be able to mirror it at 1280x1024, because I'm pretty sure it would just mirror the resolution on your ibook which is 1024x768. If you use the spanning though you will be able to drive the other display at 1280x1024.

I don't think you'll be able to mirror it at 1280x1024, because I'm pretty sure it would just mirror the resolution on your ibook which is 1024x768. If you use the spanning though you will be able to drive the other display at 1280x1024.

By definition, when you mirror, both of the screens have the same resolution.... So no. Well, a powerbook that can do 1280x1024 (interpolated) on its internal screen can mirror both at 1280x1024. But you can't mirror with different resolutions on the two screens, AFAIK, with any hardware. Without a res-independent UI, how would that even work? What would you be mirroring?

Maybe I will sell this LCD (would hate to, it's SO nice) and get one whose native resolution is 1024x768.

Right now it's hooked up to my quicksilver. When I change the resolution to 1024x768....ew....it looks so blurry and horrible, because it's native res. is 1280x1024, hence the point of this thread: to see how I can possible do this.

1024x768 @ millions uses ~4mb? What about when you start doing photoshop though or play a game, doesn't it start using much more. Of course, if I only played it on the one screen, I'm sure it would only use more VRAM on that screen and leave the other one alone.

I guess I could set my ibook on my iCurve next to the LCD and use the hack to span using the LCD as the main display. I'm just worried about overworking the graphics card.

I just plugged my dad's laptop from work (toshiba) into my LCD and it let me mirror at a higher resolution than the main one.....

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Any chance you can post a photo or explain what that looks like? I mean... either there has to be missing / blank space on one of the two screens, or one of them has to extend off the bottom or side of the screen. I don't understand how this would work? They're both showing the same screen, but they're at different resolutions?

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